This mod will resize and move the HUD elements to edges of the screen.
You will finally find relief from the oppressively large HUD elements that
eat up half the screen real estate for no reason other than to annoy you.
You may suddenly find driving with full HUD in NFS Shift much more enjoyable.
TinyHUD was inspired by tatarus's Small Hud Elements mod which showed that it
was possible to move and resize HUD elements in NFS Shift camera views.

The Unofficial Community Patch aims to only correct bugs in the game
while preserving the driving feel of stock Shift, rather than making
radical handling changes as with Overhaul or Sharp mod.

It is intended for people who enjoy driving the game out of the box,
but were bothered by all the bugs, and as a base for future mod
development, taking care of many obscure and foundational bugs in
the game to make sure your mod is built against corrected data.

See the full "Community Patch Readme.txt" file in the zip.

***** PLEASE NOTE*****
- this mod is intended for use with a freshly installed game
- if you install it over the top of other mods you may cause problems
- this mod requires NFS Shift with latest official patch (v1.02)
- I recommend you use an unpacked game, but an installer is also included for use with a packed game
- to avoid problems, please (!) take the time to read the "Community Patch Readme.txt" file in the zip properly from start to finish :)

This mod increases the already high graphic quality of Need for Speed Shift.
More details, high-resolution textures and full-range HDR-rendering is possible
with this mod. Please note, that you need a high-end system to benefit from these changes.

This tool allows you to edit cameras in realtime and also adds unofficial TrackIR support.

Notes:
Supports Need For Speed SHIFT v1.1 Patch ONLY
Tested on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7.
Requires .NET Framework 2.0 and DirectX August 2009 Updates.
Supports new cameras if you've added them to cameraconfig.xml, just name them in sequence (eg; CockpitCam5, CockpitCam6) up to 10.
Backup your career if possible.

Installation:
Extract files anywhere you like.
Copy 'd3d9.dll' from this package to your Need For Speed SHIFT directory if you want to use the in-game control viewer.

Usage:
Run SHIFT Camera Control.exe
Run game then press * to enable control viewer.
Edit values with the mouse. (no hotkeys in this version yet)
Press Save to save current camera setting (saves to presets.dat, does not change game files)
Press Reload to reload camera data from file.
For TrackIR, make sure TrackIR software is loaded before you start Camera Control, then tick the 'Use TrackIR' box.
Press F2 if you want to use camera control in replays, remember to turn this back off or the game may crash upon exiting

Known Bugs:
Some settings require you to cycle the camera to see the effect.

This MOD reduce adboards, graffities, tents, flags, and some metal constructions beside the track. Helicopter, Planes, Balloons and moving circusparts are completely removed from the racetrack.
All real racetracks in Shift are patched, the fictional tracks lacking only some generic things (planes, some ads, etc).

////Installation
!Warning!
To use this mod, you have to completely unpack the hole game, this is timeconsuming (about 30 minutes) and should only be done with a full game backup!
I've wrote a small batch file (game_unpack.bat), which does the unpacking job for you and moves the pakfile folder to a backuplocation. Place the files in the 'Reduced_Bling_MOD_with_UnpackerScript+EXE' zip in the root folder of the game where your 'shift.exe' is located. If you installed the game on your systemdrive you may need to run the batch file with administrator rights. After successfully unpacking, use the 'backup_reduced_bling_original_files.bat' to backup all files the mod will overwriter with its installation. Install the mod with the 'install_reduce_bling_modfiles.bat' script.
Last step, create a shortcut to your 'shift.exe' and edit its properties, add the '-loose' parameter to the patch of the executable.
You can always remove the mod by using the 'restore_original_files.bat' script.
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Why unpacking the hole game? Some clever guys find the '-loose' parameter, to circumvent some problems with the repacker-tool. It is not possible to repack the *.bff archives of the tracks. The programmer of the repacker, will not further investigate a way to repack all files since you can run and mod the game with in a unpacked status.

This mod removes bloom but keeps HDR enabled. Bloom is the effect that creates a 'hazy aura'/dreamstyle
silhouette around objects. By disabling bloom effect such thing as color contrast gets more defined
aswell as contrast between objects and overall image sharpness regarding detail. This makes it look
more realistic.

This archive contains the unpacked version and the .bff-files, for those not using the -loose
installation.

Several mods require an unpacked version of NFS Shift. To unpack the game files, you can use this handy batch-script. All you have to do, once it ran through, is creating a shortcut to the shift.exe with the parameter ' -loose'.

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